Intake?

hey guys/girls, i am looking at getting a cold air intake for my GSX and i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? I looked on ebay and found two dif. ones

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7926936071&category=38634

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7928011544&category=38634

Now $250 is alot, but if it the best and some one can vouch for it i will go for it. any have any suggestions or some where that i can get it any cheaper?

too much money. just go to posracing.com or search home depot intake and make on yourself for 30 bucks. or get a cheap one off ebay they all work the same

$250 is waaay too much for an intake. Seriously get a $50 intake pipe and filter, and save the next $200 something faster down the road. ;)

Just go with the home depot intake. I did it and i think its great, i get faster spool and the turbo is loud as hell.

Thanks guys, i think im going to go with

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7929026065

it will look alittle better then one i can make from homedepot i guess

um just to let yall know thats not a cai actually i dont think they make em for the turbos just the n/a's

i think oHero is right. there's no room with the smic in the way

i dont think u need one for a turbo car since you have an intercooler.

um just to let yall know thats not a cai actually i dont think they make em for the turbos just the n/a's

I agree, I haven't heard of a CAI for the 1G or 2G turbos.

and george536, I don't quite think I understand what you're saying when you say you don't need an intake if you have an intercooler. A better flowing intake still provides better airflow to the turbo...

I think george was talking about not needing a CAI.

kay gotcha. Thanks for the clarification real_madridcf

i think he meant he was looking for an aftermarket air filter...commonly known as a cold air intake

cold air intake goes down in the wheelwell. short ram intake just stays in the stock filter location. nobody make a cai for a turbo eclipse

yeah thats what i meant, sorry for my mis-wording

Thanks guys, i think im going to go with

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7929026065

it will look alittle better then one i can make from homedepot i guess

I got the exact same intake as what you are looking at on ebay... Don't use the filter that they send with it... I tried it just for the hell of it and the mounting for it on the MAFS is to restrictive... just compare it to the one for the K&N... big difference.
I had the HomeDepot one but wanted better looks....the performance of either isn't any different...... GL

Thery're just called intakes for DSMs. Some people do make cold air intakes themselves though. They just cut a hole in the metal below the filter and put a tube of some kind down to the pasenger side bumper opening. Or create a metal "box" around the filter (except the top) to seal out hot engine air.

after i put in the Carbonio CAI on my Jetta 1.8t i was looking at my car a little different. the turbo is on the back of the motor and the pipe goes down into the space between the wheel well and the bumper. not an easy install, but a superb spot for some prime fresh air real estate.

so now i'm looking at my intake a bit different. not trying to relocate the actual filter, just to cut a big hole into the spot beneath...

there is no need for a cold air intake on a turbo charged car because the "COLD" air is going straight into a HOT turbo. thats why you have a smic or fmic to cool the air down. most people with standalone ems that dont need the MAF sensor bolt the filter directly to the turbo inlet

there is no need for a cold air intake on a turbo charged car because the "COLD" air is going straight into a HOT turbo. thats why you have a smic or fmic to cool the air down. most people with standalone ems that dont need the MAF sensor bolt the filter directly to the turbo inlet

if you start out with colder air then you end up with colder air...

if you start out with colder air then you end up with colder air...
exactly its like sayin would you rather bee burned in 100degreesf water or 105 degrees. not much of a difference right? but i bet everyone would take 100degrees.

or i can be totally wrong, but either way i think colder air to start off with is better.

^^ Makes sense... :iagree:

your not suposed to put a cai on a turbo car for the most part most cars you cant do that except for the srt4 that is the only boosted car i have ever seen with a cai, if you suck water in to that turbo you'll be gettin a new engine

i have a question can you take some crappy honda piping from ebay and cut it, connect it to the MAF, then the filter. Basicly hows the best way to but a bov with out looping it back to the front of the turbo(stock)

what parts do you need for that home depot intake? i gotta 1g gst...should be the same setup but i checked out the site that 1stGen posted but the page come up as a Wolfeboro Online page??? wtf?

The FMIC will catch any water you take in. If you manage to fill the FMIC somehow, you're a tool. A SMIC will do the same thing but it has much lower capacity and is mounted higher up. At any rate, you rarely ever see a cold air intake with the filter on the ground. Leave that to the honda owners. DSMers typically leave the filter in the stock location and box it in, and plumb cold air to it. This was already mentioned above. I ran this for some time on my car. I also removed the passenger headlight for "cold air intake" at the track for about 5 years.

The trouble with turbo cars is a FMIC is so damn good at what it does. Sure the turbo heats, the air, but the FMIC cools it right back down. If one was to search this very site, you would find actual numbers and examples where I ran through all the math involved. The FMIC will cut down any gains by around 80 percent. But, you still get colder air with a cool intake charge than with a hot one. ;)

On a SMIC car the IC is much less efficient, and cold air intake certainly does help! Running the numbers for the SMIC, typically the drops in temps are only cut down by 40-50%. Also, SMICs heat soak sooner dropping the efficiency almost to nothing, so a 50 degree drop in intake temps will be just about a 50 degree drop in outlet temps, and that makes a huge difference when your FMIC is heatsoaked and knock is trying to ruin your day.